Word: expendability
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ally. ". . . It is the Russian cockerel which has saved the necks of the few chickens." > Conservative Sir Archibald Southby, apparently giddy with Lend-Lease, said: "It might have been better if the United States had augmented the defenses of those vitally important places [Far Eastern bases] rather than expend time and material in creation of the bases which we leased them in the West Indies and Newfoundland." > Laborite Richard Rapier Stokes: "I hate to think of the military center of control shifting to Washington. It gives me a nasty feeling . . . that we may find ourselves reduced to what I term...
...quite true that all of Tschaikowsky's music contains a greater or lesser degree of emotion, which Tschaikowsky, an introvert, could not expend in the usual channels and, therefore, allowed to appear in his music. When this emotion is allowed to overbalance the seance of musical architecture which Tschaikowsky admittedly possessed, as in Marche Slave, the 1812 Overture, and the earlier symphonies, the result is something which approximates trash yet, nevertheless, contains definite musical interest. However, it must be admitted that when, as in the last three symphonies and the two popular concertos, Tschaikowsky succeeds in welding this emotion into...
According to the experts, however, it is improbable that the sacrifice of these millions will ever be necessary. Most of them would, in any case, be better employed in our own aircraft and ammunition factories. Of course we should be obliged to expend some of our 'wealth and resources' but I do not think that they would be "poured down the drain" if used in the defence of our liberty and our civilization. Furthermore even if we follow your advice and refrain from any intervention we would be faced, in the event of a German victory, with the necessity...
...strength of the Manhattan, New York and Fordham University aggregations is concentrated in the middle distances. While the native colleges expend their energy in violent warfare in the favored races, Crimson men, representing a much broader sweep of good entrants may be able to gloan enough points in the field events to take a high place in the final score...
...Populaire asked: "Will the duration of this furlough be the same for all? A captain gets two or three rations, a colonel gets more. Will officers have a longer leave? If a soldier can accomplish his work in four days, will it be considered that his colonel must expend more effort...